This Sunday, December 8 at Paris-Vincennes, the Prix du Bourbonnais Q2 will deliver four new passports for the America Races Finals. What is the typical profile of the trotter able to shine in this Group II? Is Qualifying #2 a good springboard for the America Races Finals? To try to answer these questions, our data team explored the past of this race.
PROFILE OF THE TROTTERERS WHO PERFORMED IN THIS QUALIFY
Gains
The two richest horses in the race have excellent success in this Group II. In 2017 (1), they made up the winning couple of the Prix Bourbonnais (Bird Parker-Bold Eagle). Since 2016, the 2 richest horses in the race have accumulated 8 podiums in this Group II.
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: IDAO DE TILLARD et Hohneck.
Sex
Males have won 10 of the last 14 editions of the Prix du Bourbonnais, which seems logical given their over-representation at the start of this race. Example: the starting grid for Qualifv#2 2023 was made up of 15 males and 3 females.
A piece of data which concerns the Prix du Bourbonnais Q2 and the Prix de Bretagne Q1 is of concern. Since 2022, the winners of these two races have all been males born in 2017. Another statistic this time illustrates the collective strength of this promotion. Since 2022, 2/3 of the podiums in Qualif#1 and Qualif#2 were made up of males born in 2017 (10/15).
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: HUSSARD YOU LANDRED, HOOKER BERRYHokkaido Jiel et HOHNECK.
Age
Since 2009, the Prix du Bourbonnais has been won by trotters aged 5, 6 or 7 years old. More recently, the 5 years have removed 4 of the last 8 editions of this Group II. A rather flattering score because they often presented themselves in clear numerical inferiority at the start of this race. There were no 5-year-olds at the start of the 2021 Prix du Bourbonnais. And during its success in 2018, Delia Du Pommereux was the only 5-year-old entered in the race.
Bourbonnais Prize 2024 edition, they tick this box: Dimitri Ferm, Josh Power and Just Love You.
Finally, a statistic is rather rewarding for the richest French 5-year-old male at the start of the Prix du Bourbonnais. Since 2011, this has shown 89% success in the first 5 in this race (8/9).
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, it ticks this box: JOSH POWER.
Reference race
The solution to the Prix du Bourbonnais is often found in the Prix de Bretagne. A figure attests to this: Since 2017, 86% of Bourbonnais winners were trotters who had finished in the top 8 of Qualif#1 a few weeks earlier (6/7).
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: HUSSARD DU LANDRET, HOOKER BERRY, JUST LOVE YOU, JOSH POWEREmeraude De Bais and AMPIA MEDE SM.
Visiting card
Trotters who have references in the Prix d’Amérique also have good success in the Prix du Bourbonnais. 7 of the last 8 podiums in Qualif #2 were thus composed of a trotter who had previously finished in the top 3 of a Prix d’Amérique. This was particularly the case of TO D’HERIPRE (3rd in the Bourbonnais 2023, 3rd in the Legend Race in 2021).
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: GU D’HÉRIPRE, HOKKAIDO JIEEL, AMPIA MEDE SM, HOOKER BERRY et IDAO DE TILLARD.
Course
Aptitude for the 2,850 meters of the Grande Piste can make the difference in this Qualification. The proof is that 7 of the last 8 podiums at the Prix du Bourbonnais were made up of a trotter who won during his most recent outing on this course.
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: IDAO DE TILLARD, HOOKER BERRY, EMERAUDE DE BAIS et JOSH POWER.
Foreign trotters
Last year, the Scandinavian San Engine won this Qualification. Foreign trotters (imported or not) are doing quite well in the Prix du Bourbonnais, particularly for places. Since 2012, 15 of them have finished in the top 4 of this Group II.
Prix du Bourbonnais 2024 edition, they tick this box: Oracle Tile, Dimitri Ferm, Don Fanucci Zet and AMPIA MEDE SM.
Favorites
In the Prix du Bourbonnais, the most played horses respond most often. For 10 years, horses offered for less than 5 euros as single winners at PMU (points of sale) have displayed in this race: 79% success in the first 4 (11/14).
BOURBONNAIS 2024 PRICE: THEY CHICK SEVERAL BOXES
Failing in the Prix de Bretagne Q1, JOSH POWER presents here a very interesting profile (age, age/gains, reference race, route). This remark also applies to IDAO DE TILLARD (winnings, business card, career path) which has only one fault this Sunday, that of returning to school after two months of absence. HOOKER BERRY is cited here several times, as isAMPIA MEDE SM. For his part, DIMITRI FIRM presents himself with a few arguments (driver, foreign trotter, age) for his entry into the running in the America Races 2024-2025.
FROM Q2 TO THE AMERICA RACE FINALS
The Prix du Bourbonnais is not only a qualifying race for the America Races Finals. It is also often an opportunity for the great champions to pull out all the stops and assert (or reaffirm) their lofty ambitions in view of the major deadlines in January and February. And in particular with a view to the Prix d’Amérique Legend Race.
Since the winter of 2011-2012, 4 trotters have achieved the victorious Prix du Bourbonnais-Prix d’Amérique double. Broadening the spectrum a little, we also see that 7 of the last 15 winners of the Legend Race had finished 1st or 2nd in the Prix du Bourbonnais a month earlier.
Contested over 2,850 meters, Qualifying #2 also constitutes a very good launching pad for the Prix de Paris Marathon Raceas indicated by Bird Parker’s victorious Prix du Bourbonnais-Prix de Paris doubles, Bold Eagle et Ready Cash. Did you know? Since the winter of 2011-2012, the winners of the Prix du Bourbonnais have had an 87.5% success rate in the first 3 when they present themselves at the start of this Final two months later (7/8).
Since 2010, they have signed the victorious double Prix du Bourbonnais Q2 – Prix d’Amérique Legend Race during the same winter:
Winter 2022-2023: Hooker Berry
Winter 2020-2021: Face Time Bourbon
Winter 2016-2017: Bold Eagle
Hiver 2011-2012 : Ready Cash
They signed the victorious double Prix du Bourbonnais Q2 – Prix de France Speed Race during the same winter:
Winter 2016-2017: Bold Eagle
Winter 2012-2013: Ready Cash
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They signed the victorious double Prix du Bourbonnais Q2 – Prix de Paris Marathon Race during the same winter:
Winter 2017-2018 : Bird Parker
Winter 2016-2017: Bold Eagle
Winter 2012-2013: Ready Cash
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